Agreed! I don’t like that either. The fact is the player should be able to avoid her (and any love interest they don’t like) even at the sacrifice of content. Instead, no matter what the player/MC is forced to spend time with certain people who we’d much rather never see again (Elaine). It makes sense that you see Katie, Jenna, and Monica as they live there. Bella, Elaine, and Jolina (I’ve stated my dislike of the Jolina situation enough) should be completely avoidable after the initial meeting.
not to hang out with them would perhaps have been too much, for the question of inheritance we have to deal with them, even if it is as a double game
but, narratively, Bella is presented to us as a friend, someone who in a hostile context had been kind to us, so defending her to Katie is consistent.
But Elaine is presented to us as the cause of all our problems, we can't forgive her the first time we talk to her directly... I repeat that in theory that scene comes after she has thrown away all our things from "her house" (or so Bella tells us). (or so Bella tells us)
there's a clear jump in Mc's attitude which is unjustified, not even if Elaine had welcomed us naked with ready-made vaseline.
This jump ruined, at least for me, the immersion in the story.
However, taking a step forward for the inheritance issue, for me the central point remains the one mentioned before: "did Elaine really throw our stuff away and Bella saved it?".
if it's true, Elaine loses all credibility, otherwise the cross falls on Bella (who along with Jenna has the attitude that makes me most uncomfortable in the game)
) then you wouldn't be worried about time with Mon.
